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	Software license terms that could kill you Phil Odence: 10 licenses cover 93% of the software, but another1980-odd licenses covering the other 3% -- and some of them have some pretty crazy conditions. The Death and Repudiation License, for instance, requires the user to be dead. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IBM IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack If your business struggles with an increasing amount of data and a decreasing tolerance to downtime, learn how IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack can help provide seamless data protection and recovery for critical Windows and Linux servers and reduce storage and bandwidth requirements with incremental backup and integrated data deduplication. Click to continue In this Issue Pondering Oracle's virtual box of mystery Reclaim Your Privacy From Facebook Without Having To Leave Your Friends Creating a library of FLOSS Manuals Striking back at Facebook, the open-source way Nexus One: Success or Failure? Yahoo To Offer Open Source Cloud "Container" Alfresco launches open source BPM tool Eclipse partners with Google on projects portal Mozilla Discusses Firefox 4 Plans Cloud-based Java offers risks and rewards Open-source software's hidden snags Adaptable Open Source From Open Source Subnet WEBCAST: Actuate Solve Data Needs: BIRT Defined This webcast will give you a primer on BIRT including the technology and the community. BIRT can help you overcome the challenge of delivering accurate and meaningful data to users while minimizing IT development efforts. Learn more today! Pondering Oracle's virtual box of mystery Ben Whaley: Much speculation and discussion has surfaced since Oracle announced its Red Hat-derived Enterprise Linux distribution in late 2006. Oracle has stated that OEL is not a fork of RHEL since the beginning, and so far this commitment has held true. Read More Reclaim Your Privacy From Facebook Without Having To Leave Your Friends Alan Shimel: There has been quite a bit written lately about Facebook and privacy. Now there is a way to control some of those myriad privacy settings without having to delete your account and leave your long lost, new found friends behind. Read More Creating a library of FLOSS Manuals Amy Vernon: The work by FLOSS Manuals to develop gather and develop "free manuals for free software" continues apace, but some continue to wonder just why documentation for open source software has been so relatively rare. Read More Striking back at Facebook, the open-source way Amy Vernon: Probably the two biggest complaints about Facebook are about how the site handles privacy and how it's near-impossible to customize. Open source to the rescue. Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center Nexus One: Success or Failure? Mark Murphy: Recently, Sprint declined to support the Nexus One Android phone. This comes on the heels of Verizon making a similar move earlier this year. Some have declared that the Nexus One is a failure. Read More Yahoo To Offer Open Source Cloud "Container" Alan Shimel: Yahoo is planning to release as open source, the cloud based platform it uses for its own internal applications early next year. Read More Alfresco launches open source BPM tool Alfresco is set to shake up the business process management market with the development of an open source BPM technology. Read More Eclipse partners with Google on projects portal Open source projects will be hosted by Google Code, where they can gain exposure without having to become official Eclipse projects Read More WHITE PAPER: Fluke Networks Troubleshooting Application Problems This comprehensive 94 page guide is a how-to resource handbook for network engineers. Learn the fundamentals of how applications work, how they flow, where applications fail and best practices and methodologies for troubleshooting network and application problems. Click here! Mozilla Discusses Firefox 4 Plans Mozilla this week discussed its goals for Firefox 4, the next major upgrade of its open source Web browser. The new version of Firefox will focus on features like improved speed, a simpler user interface, and HTML 5 technologies. Read More Cloud-based Java offers risks and rewards As the fallout from Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems continues, customers remain rightly concerned as to how Oracle might try to wring profit from Sun's software portfolio, including the Java platform. Read More Open-source software's hidden snags When CIO Daniel Chan was first prompted to use open-source software, cost savings weren't top of mind. He was mainly interested in how open source would put ideas into action more quickly. Read More Adaptable Open Source Cost savings are still the primary driver for organizations choosing open-source software, according to Jay Lyman, an analyst at The 451 Group. Read More From Open Source Subnet This newsletter includes the latest blogs from Open Source Subnet. Open Source Subnet features the latest headlines, opinions, discussion, podcasts and book giveaways on open source technologies for enterprise users. 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